A Prize-Winning Look?
If we held a competition among all the world’s photographs capturing ‘dirty looks’ — hateful, contemptuous gazes — the following image might be found among the contenders. It depicts what borders on a murderous stare, recorded by me while riding in a horse-drawn vehicle through an alleyway at Luxor, Upper Egypt. It reminds me of a photo taken by Alfred Eisenstadt in Geneva, Switzerland (1933). That image depicts Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s chief propagandist. The Doctor is seated — a small squirrel-like man looking up at the photographer from close range. The frame reveals on the Nazi’s face hatred in a pure form.